In 1907, German settlers in Tanga in the Usambara Post attacked the colonial policy of Governor Albrecht von Rechenberg.
Willy von Roy declared his solidarity with the settlers and let print the Usaramo post office for three months for the vacant market.
The newspaper quoted affirmatively Bishop Jean-Joseph Hirth (1854-1931) from Ukara, according to which the peace in the country could not be restored until the last Maasai was exterminated.
Passavant, a journalist of the German East African Rundschau, researched that in 1899 a punishment had been imposed on Roy in a Bagatellsache.
As a result, the German East African Newspaper reported that von Rechenberg had a homosexual relationship with one of his servants.